[wpkg-users] Per-user installation?

[Kevin Keane]

Thank you Justin! I actually have three such applications, but Google Chrome is the biggest one, so your hint helps tremendously.

The second one is WinDirStat.

The third one is trickiest because it also has a dependency on a systemwide application: themes for LightScribe are installed per-user, while the application itself is systemwide.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Brinegar [mailto:brinegar at physics.unc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 12:25 PM
> To: Kevin Keane
> Cc: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Per-user installation?
> 
> If I recall correctly, the standalone Chrome installer will install to
> a
> per user location, and the Google Pack Chrome installer
> (http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html) will install
> Chrome
> to a user agnostic location.
> 
> This does not answer your per-user application installation question,
> but if your problem only lies with Chrome, hopefully this will help.
> 
> Justin
> 
> Kevin Keane wrote:
> > Is there a way to use WPKG to install per-user applications, such as
> > Google Chrome?
> >
> >
> >
> > I am thinking to call wpkg.js from a logon script. I could specify
> the
> > user name as host name. But I'm stumped on how to change the location
> of
> > the wpkg.xml file without creating a separate config.xml for each
> user
> > (which would be a maintenance nightmare).
> >
> >
> >
> > And in any case, it seems like quite a bit of (error-prone) hacking.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a better solution?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> 
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